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BZPower Livestreams

Man, it's been far too long since I last posted here. Things have been, and still are, busy. But I need to get back in the habit of making blog entries, so here we are.

Back in September, we hosted a livestream celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Mask of Light's release. Despite not going entirely as we planned, it was still a lot of fun and I think everyone enjoyed it.

I'd like to do more of them - would you like us to? What would you like us to stream? Other LEGO movies and videos like Hero Factory and Ninjago? Playing games like MNOLG or the TT Games?

Does anyone have a suggestion for a platform to use? Should we stay with YouTube or looking into something like Twitch or Ustream?

I think Twitch.tv is a good option; it's pretty reliable, though integrating group video calls isn't nearly as easy as the unified Google Hangouts-Youtube system. Audio shouldn't be too much of a hassle, though.

No matter how wonky Twitch can be, I would recommend Twitch. I stream there nearly weekly, and the chat system is intuitive enough; IIRC you can set your own personal chat word filter as well. Also, if you happened to use twitch, there are a number of chat bots that help out too. Nightbot being one, for example.

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